Ebook {Epub PDF} Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Arian

 · "Then The Fish Swallowed Him" is the American debut of Iranian author Amir Ahmadi Arian, a former journalist and translator. He joins us now from Queens, New York www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a penetrating political fiction emerging at a time that this genre has been deprived of its principle trait - Los Angeles Review of Books A distressing, smartly interior tale of the horrors sown by oppressive politics. “I found Amir Arian’s Then the Fish Swallowed Him a strange and startling vision written with the ferocity of an endangered artist and the lyric eloquence of a master. The world conjured up in these pages will haunt the reader with a real, palpable but entertaining dread much like /5(41).

"I found Amir Arian's Then the Fish Swallowed Him a strange and startling vision written with the ferocity of an endangered artist and the lyric eloquence of a master. The world conjured up in these pages will haunt the reader with a real, palpable but entertaining dread much like the Iranian classic. Then The Fish Swallowed him is an amazing debut for Iranian author, Amir Ahmadi Arian. The novel is set in modern Tehran and follows bus-driver Yunus from a weekly book club, to a bus-drivers' union strike, to an unexpected arrest, and finally to solitary confinement in prison. Amir Ahmadi Arian (photo: Jason Keith). Tehran bus driver Yunus Turabi, participates in a city-wide strike called by the union. The strike is forcefully repressed. Violence begets more violence. Yunus loses his temper in a bus ride as he remembers his peers beaten by police forces.

The following is an excerpt from Amir Ahmadi Arian's novel. Arian has published a collection of stories, a nonfiction book, and two novels in Persian. He has published short stories and essays in Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He currently lives in New York where he earned an MFA in the NYU Creative. “I found Amir Arian’s Then the Fish Swallowed Him a strange and startling vision written with the ferocity of an endangered artist and the lyric eloquence of a master. The world conjured up in these pages will haunt the reader with a real, palpable but entertaining dread much like the Iranian classic, The Blind Owl. Then the Fish Swallowed Him is the modern Iranian’s , telling the tale of how an ordinary busy driver is thoroughly beaten, broken, and finally blamed for a political crime he did not commit. The main character/tortured, Yunus Turabi, and his antagonist/torturer, Hajj Saeed, weren’t written as real people.